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Musical ElementsA packet by Will NedigerThe answers in this packet are all elements of songs; they might be lyrical snippets, melodies, or whatever. To get points, players must produce (hum, sing, whatever) the relevant element – you can prompt on descriptions. Because of this, many of the answerlines are fairly useless. If you’re doing a reading of this packet, the reader should look over the answerlines first to familiarize themselves with them, and if necessary listen to the songs. There are no powers, but if you want you can give 15 points to people who give a particularly spirited rendition of the element.The first tossup is an entirely unrelated meta-ish tossup, which can be answered normally.This type of occurrence resulted from expeditions against the Banu Qasi by a king who had been raised among the Banu Qasi in the court of Muhammad ibn Lubb. The battle of San Esteban de Gormaz, which was won by the troops of Ordo?o II, resulted in this type of occurrence. The opposite of this type of occurrence resulted from Count Ferdinand II making Burgos independent and expanding its territory. In 1230, an extreme version of this occurrence resulted from a merger with Castile. For 10 points, name this type of occurrence in which a certain Medieval Spanish kingdom increased in size.ANSWER: León getting larger [prompt generously, but do not accept any other answer]This element is sung with lyrics meaning “Soak your ass in the tureen, if it is hot it burns, if it burns it’s that it’s hot” in a song called “Travadja La Moukère.” As recounted in The Devil in the White City, this element was written by Sol Bloom as the entertainment director of the World’s Columbian Exposition. In a children’s song with many variations, this element is given lyrics like “There’s a place in France where the ladies wear no pants.” The melody of the line “Even old New York was once New Amsterdam” from “Istanbul, Not Constantinople” closely resembles this element. For 10 points, produce this melody stereotypically used to represent snake-charming, belly-dancing, and other Middle Eastern things.PROMPT ON: “The Streets of Cairo, or The Poor Little Country Maid”; the snake charmer song; “The Girls in France”; “The Southern Part of France”This element is Shia LaBeouf’s character’s ringtone in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Hugo Montenegro’s version of a song beginning with this element was a #2 hit in 1968. This element inspired the beginning of a song with the lyrics “I ain’t happy, I’m feeling glad, I got sunshine in a bag, I’m useless, but not for long, the future is coming on.” In a film appearance, this element blends in with a coyote howl immediately after the opening credits. This element is sung to represent Tuco, played on the ocarina to represent Angel Eyes, and played on the flute to represent the Man with No Name. For 10 points, produce the beginning of the main theme of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.PROMPT ON: the main theme of The Good, the Bad and the UglyConner4Real sings this element before and after singing “I’m gonna live forever” in the chorus of “Fuck Off,” which was cut from the movie Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. This is the first vocal element of a song with the line “woke up on the right side of the bed, what’s up with this Prince song inside my head?” By definition, this element involves an alternation between the fifth and third notes of a major scale. This element follows the line “sun-kissed skin so hot we’ll melt your popsicle” in the first chorus of “California Gurls.” For 10 points, produce the sequence of notes commonly known as the “millennial whoop.”PROMPT ON: millennial whoopThis element opens both “I.P.C. Subeditors Dictate Our Youth” by Clinic and “What’s a Girl to Do?” by Bat for Lashes. This element backs lyrics like “Bobby’s drivin’ through the city tonight, through the lights in a hot new rent-a-car” in Billy Joel’s “Say Goodbye to Hollywood.” This element kicks in after Bob and Charlotte say goodbye to each other at the end of Lost in Translation. This element opens “Just Like Honey” by the Jesus and Mary Chain. In its original appearance, this element precedes the line “The night we met I knew I needed you so.” For 10 points, produce the opening drum riff of The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby.”PROMPT ON: the opening drum riff from “Be My Baby”This element is borrowed for the beginning of “Cement Mixer” by Clinic. This element appears in the background of lyrics like “so hold me, Mom, in your long arms, your petrochemical arms.” This is the most recognizable element of the album United States Live, and appears on a song which shockingly hit #2 on the UK charts in 1981. This element appears throughout a song inspired by an aria from Massenet’s Le Cid which includes lyrics like “O judge, O mom and dad.” For 10 points, produce this element which appears in the background during the entirety of Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman.”PROMPT ON: the background of “O Superman”This single-word element appears exactly twice in the most popular YouTube video by “Dpaje.” In a music video, this single-word element follows the line “I’d say there’s potential,” spoken by Ben Stiller in response to the introduction of superhero personas like The Waffler and Pencilhead. In a video created by “cool_as_heck,” every word of a song is replaced by this element. This element opens a verse in which a woman “was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.” For 10 points, produce the first word of Smash Mouth’s “All Star.”ANSWER: someBOdy This element appears at the beginning and end of Billy Murray’s 1915 song “On the 5:15.” In Mexico, this element is highly offensive because it has the same rhythm as the phrase “Fuck your mother, asshole!” This element is one of the most popular bluegrass runs, frequently used by Earl Scruggs. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Judge Doom uses this element to lure out Roger, noting that “no toon can resist” this element. Nardwuar the Human Serviette ends all his interviews with this element, which is often used for customized car horns. For 10 points, produce the riff commonly known as “shave and a haircut.”PROMPT ON: shave and a haircut (two bits)This element opens a song about a “night stalker” who decided to “take fear, and turn it around on the darkest-hearted.” This element opens a song which includes the lyrics “You’re gonna have to use him eventually, what’s he gonna do on the bench, I mean?” As I learned from EMT, the notes following this element were inspired by a sound file called “Door Wood Squeak Sound Effect.” This element opens a song which ends with the company responding to the question “What’s your name, man?” For 10 points, produce this riff which precedes a line about a “bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman” at the beginning of “Alexander Hamilton.”PROMPT ON: the opening riff of “Alexander Hamilton”In American Pie 2, the band camp counselor plays this element on a trumpet which had slightly earlier been inserted into Jim’s buttocks. This is the most recognizable element written by Julius Wechter, who died the day after the Simpsons episode “Sunday, Cruddy Sunday” used this element. In this element’s most famous use, it is used alongside “Whipped Cream” and “Lollipops and Roses” by the same artist. For 10 points, produce this tune from Herb Alpert’s “Spanish Flea,” best known as the bachelors’ theme on The Dating Game.PROMPT ON: “Spanish Flea”; The Dating Game themeA song beginning with this element is covered by Kirsten Dunst in a short improbably co-directed by Takashi Murakami and McG. A 1974 hit which makes heavy use of this element was the international breakthrough of the producer Biddu. In one appearance, this element precedes the lyrics “Our first stop is in Bogotá to check Colombian fields.” The whistled riff from Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” is basically a slower version of this element. “A Passage to Bangkok,” “Turning Japanese,” and “Kung Fu Fighting” are among the songs that use this element. For 10 points, produce this riff used as a stereotypical representation of the Orient.PROMPT ON: Oriental riffClips of characters producing this element alternate with clips of Birdperson from Rick and Morty in a YouTube video by “isthishowougoviral.” This element is interjected after Quavo’s line “outer space, Kid Cudi” on “Bad and Boujee.” This element provides the subtitle of a song in which the singer’s conscience tells him “if you do not hear me, then you will be history.” That song asks “why you babysittin’ only two or three shots” and says “I’ma show you how to turn it up a notch.” This element alternates with phrases like “pour up,” “head shot,” “sit down,” and “stand up.” For 10 points, produce this element which is repeated in the bridge of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools.”ANSWER: drankThis element is sampled beneath lyrics about a man who “gets in so late at night, always a fuss and fight” in Massive Attack’s “Man Next Door.” This element was recorded at the bottom of a stairwell by the engineer Andy Johns. This element is sampled in Bj?rk’s “Army of Me,” and provides the beat for the Beastie Boys’ “Rhymin’ and Stealin’.” This element is absent in the original version of the song, by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. It is the first element in a song about a “mean old” object that “taught me to weep and moan.” For 10 points, produce the drum break from the beginning of Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks.”PROMPT ON: the drum beat from “When the Levee Breaks”This element is replaced by Peter banging a rock on a pipe in the Shawshank Redemption parody in the Family Guy episode “Three Kings.” This element was performed by Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman, and David Crane. Due to a technical glitch, this element was formerly missing from “The One with the Thumb.” This is the most distinctive element of the most famous song by The Rembrandts, on which it follows the words “So no one told you life was gonna be this way.” For 10 points, produce the series claps that appears in the Friends theme song.PROMPT ON: the claps from the Friends theme song; the claps from “I’ll Be There for You”; only a sequence of exactly four claps is acceptable or promptableA child hears this element on a music-box just before being lynched in John Ford’s Two Rode Together. This is the most recognizable element of the music which plays above a still-life shot of flowers over the opening credits of The Long Day Closes. Nigel Tufnel plays this element at the end of the song “Heavy Duty” in This Is Spinal Tap. In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, this element can be heard at the Chez Luis restaurant. Professor Marcus’ gang plays this element to maintain their cover in the Ealing comedy The Ladykillers and the Coen brothers remake. For 10 points, produce the snippet of Boccherini’s minuet which stereotypically represents fanciness.PROMPT ON: the minuet from Luigi Boccherini’s String Quintet in E majorThis is the most recognizable element of the song whose cover by Richard Cheese appears on the soundtrack of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake. This element follows The Strokes’ “Last Nite” on one of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s polka medleys. Lead singer David Draiman was able to sing this element because of the effect that surgery for acid reflux had on his vocal cords. This element precedes the lyrics “Drowning deep in my sea of loathing, broken your servant I kneel.” For 10 points, produce this vocal element from the intro to Disturbed’s “Down with the Sickness.”ANSWER: oo-ah-ah-ah-ahIn January 2017, a homeless woman appeared on Dr. Phil claiming to be the person referred to by this element. This element is quoted before lyrics about “limo tinted with the gold plates” after Kendrick says that “life ain’t shit but a fat vagina” on “King Kunta.” This element, which is roughly synonymous with the last words spoken on the original Twin Peaks, was inspired by a phrase used in CPR training courses. This element first appears after the lines “So she ran into the bedroom, she was struck down, it was her doom.” For 10 points, produce this question repeated by Michael Jackson in “Smooth Criminal.”ANSWER: Annie, are you okay?According to Wikipedia, the singer of this element claims that “somewhere, I have a tape of us from 1993 endlessly playing [this element] over and over.” Daniel Mallory Ortberg often used to post tweets that were meant to be read in the voice of this element, with the best such tweet simply being this element itself read in the voice of this element. This element is the first thing sung on a track whose singer declares “I suppose I’ll show all my cool and cold like old Job.” This element is followed by the words “sent to drain, secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames.” For 10 points, produce the first five words of Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet with Butterfly Wings.”ANSWER: the world is a vampireA viral video from 2014 shows a squeaky ticket barrier on the London Underground that sounds uncannily like this element. This is the most famous element of the theme song of the video game FIFA 98. This element kicks in during the first shots of soldiers killing bugs in one of the original trailers for Starship Troopers. This element precedes lyrics like “When I feel heavy metal and I’m pins and I’m needles” and “Well, I lie and I’m easy all of the time but I’m never sure why I need you, pleased to meet you.” In a song written as a parody of grunge music, Damon Albarn sings this element. For 10 points, produce this exclamation from Blur’s “Song 2.”ANSWER: woo-hoo!According to various clickbait articles purporting to reveal the “shocking meaning” behind this element, it derived from a nickname the band gave to a musician who would always smoke a cigar while taking a shit. Wikipedia describes this element as “a euphemism for female desire, which is ambiguously sexualized or broadly economic.” A reference to this element follows the line “All citizens must watch Hocus Pocus, or they will be killed” on the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend song “Friendtopia.” This element follows the last occurrence of the line “Slam your body down” in the outro to the song on which it appears. This is the most unusual lyrical element of a song with the line “Taking is too easy, but that’s the way it is.” For 10 points, produce this nonsense word which is the thing that Mel B “really really wants” according to the Spice Girls’s “Wannabe.”ANSWER: zig-a-zig-ah [or zig-a-zig-ha]Three answers required. After these elements are performed in quick succession, a man on the phone laments “Sometimes I feel like I’m all alone in this world and I have no one to go to.” The performer of these elements asks “How’s that sandwich coming?” at the end of a trailer for a fake movie co-starring Susan Sarandon. These elements appear in a video in which an airport employee repeatedly asks “These bags have been in your possession the whole time?” On one song, these elements respectively follow the lyrics “I decided to chill,” “And forget about game, I’ma spit the truth,” and “I won’t stop till I get ‘em in their birthday suit.” The first three clues in this tossup are from Chappelle’s Show sketches about “a moment in the life of” the performer of these elements. For 10 points, produce these three interjections often shouted by Lil Jon.ANSWER: what, yeah, and notes that fall 1996 performances of a song beginning with this element “offered a taste of the bovine funk that would lubricate Phish’s sound in 1997.” Almost all of Elvis’s concerts in the 70s opened with this element. In Being There, Chance’s first excursion beyond the property where he grew up is soundtracked by Eumir Deodato’s jazz-funk rendition of this element. In its original appearance, this element precedes a movement titled “Of Those in Backwaters.” This element is heard when Bowman is transformed into the Star-Child at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. For 10 points, produce the opening fanfare from Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra.PROMPT ON: the fanfare from Also Sprach ZarathustraA woman asks “Who, me?” after one occurrence of this element on a cover version by William Shatner, which adds lyrics like “William Shatner here, riding in the mothership, just for the funk of it, baby.” This element was performed by Marcus Pyke, who also declaimed lines like “Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful!” One occurrence of this element is followed by the lines “It’s poetry in motion, and now she’s making love to me, the spheres’re in commotion, the elements in harmony.” For 10 points, perform this interjection which peppers the most famous song by Thomas Dolby, which is called “She Blinded Me with [this word].”ANSWER: science!This is the most famous element of an album which grew out of a stage show called Snowball about a Rasputin-esque magician who is banished to a cave; that album is called Stella. This element is definitely the most famous part of the career of the conceptual artist Dieter Meier, who managed to parlay the song’s success into a $175-million fortune. This element titles a song which includes the line “The sun, beautiful, the moon, even more beautiful” and very few other lyrics. This element’s ubiquitous use in movies started with Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where it plays over shots of Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari. On The Simpsons, Duffman’s catchphrase is a reference to this element. For 10 points, produce the title lyric of the most famous song by Yello.ANSWER: oh yeahThis element is a popular jingle in Germany because of its use in advertisements for Underberg digestif bitter. This is the most famous element composed by F. J. Ricketts, who used the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford. Supposedly, this element was inspired by the descending minor third interval used by a golfer as an alternative to yelling “Fore!” A children’s song about the fact that eating Comet cleanser will make your teeth turn green is sung to the tune of this element. A song which notes that “Himmler has something sim’lar” is sung to the tune of this element, and is called “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball.” Malcolm Arnold composed a “counter-march” to this element for the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. For 10 points, produce the tune of the “Colonel Bogey March.”PROMPT ON: “Colonel Bogey March”In a song named after this element, the singer says that “when the roof caved in and the truth came out I just didn’t know what to do.” This element kicks in just after Shia LaBeouf walks into the room and says “Guys, I just thought of the funniest thing” in a video in which this element is repeated dozens of times. This element is sampled in Jason Derulo’s debut single, which is named after it. The SNL Digital Short “Dear Sister” parodies this element’s most notorious usage, in which this element kicks in when Marissa shoots Trey, who is fighting with Ryan. For 10 points, produce this line from Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” which famously played during a melodramatic shooting scene on The O.C.ANSWER: mmm whatcha sayAccording to Wikipedia, this element played while rakers smoothed the court between beach volleyball sets at the 2012 Olympics. The song containing this element incorporates quotations from both “The Girl I Left Behind” and “Entrance of the Gladiators.” This element was inspired by a solo in a Leiber and Stoller song recorded by the Coasters, and it was written by Spider Rich and Boots Randolph. A popular YouTube video sets footage of a pair of llamas on the lam in Sun City, Arizona to this element. In the closing credits of a TV show, this element was generally accompanied by a sped-up chase sequence. For 10 points, produce the main melody of “Yakety Sax,” best known as the theme song to The Benny Hill Show.PROMPT ON: “Yakety Sax”A song named after this element includes samples of the final chord of Sibelius’s 7th symphony and a backwards section of Schumann’s Symphonic Studies. The fifth track on Neil Cicierega’s Mouth Moods uses a sample from a 1999 song as a reference to this element. This is the first vocal element heard in a song whose last vocal element is the line “If you become naked” followed by some incoherent shouting. This element came from a recording of an EMI engineer performing a series of tests. A portion of the song featuring this element supposedly sounds like “Turn me on, dead man” when played backwards, which fueled the “Paul is dead” conspiracy theory. Charles Manson interpreted this element as referring to a chapter number from the Book of Revelation. For 10 points, produce this two-word phrase repeatedly sampled in The Beatles’ “Revolution 9.”ANSWER: number 9The technique used to record this element was also used by the artist on the track “The Bird on My Head.” This is the most distinctive element of the song which Homer is singing when Lisa opens up the sensory deprivation tank in the episode “Make Room for Lisa.” The speaker uses this element to try to convince the addressee to stop “keeping love from me just like you were a miser.” When the singer tells the title character that the addressee “didn’t love me true,” the title character responds with this element. This element from a song released under the name David Seville was recorded by speeding up the voice of Ross Bagdasarian, who also created Alvin and the Chipmunks. For 10 points, produce this series of nonsense words from the novelty song “The Witch Doctor.”ANSWER: oo ee oo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bangClips from the music video for a song beginning with this element are combined with clips of genocides and various disgusting image stills in Jubal Brown’s video art piece Life Is Pornography. This element is partly sampled from the song “Tere Mere Beech Mein” from the 1981 Bollywood film Ek Duuje Ke Liye. A jukebox plays a “traditional ballad” beginning with this element while the Earth is destroyed by the expansion of the Sun on the Doctor Who episode “The End of the World.” This element precedes lyrics like “It’s getting late to give you up, I took a sip from my devil’s cup.” This element plays during the line “I’m addicted to you, don’t you know that you’re [the title adjective]?” For 10 points, produce the infectious string hook from Britney Spears’s “Toxic.”PROMPT ON: the strings from “Toxic”This element introduces a verse with such scintillating lyrics as “That badonkadonk is like a trunk full of bass on an old-school Chevy” and “All I need is some vodka and some Coke and watch, she gonna get Donkey Konged.” Another brilliant lyric preceded by this element is “I saw I came, I conquered, or should I say ‘I saw, I conquered, I came.’” On one song, this element precedes the lyrics “The bigger they are, the harder they fall, this biggity boy’s a diggity dog”; on that song, it also introduces a verse that ends “we about to climb, wild, ‘cause it’s about to go down.” The aforementioned songs featuring this element are “On the Floor,” “Fireball,” and “Timber.” For 10 points, produce this vocal flourish that Pitbull sings in pretty much all of his songs.ANSWER: oooooooh-whoaJedward’s debut single mashes up two different songs featuring this element. In a music video, this element plays over sped-up shots of crowds walking intercut with clips from Nosferatu and other silent films. This element was written by John Deacon, who nonetheless managed to forget it when the band took a break from a jam session to go get dinner. In a 1990 interview, a musician who sampled this element claimed that his version was different because he added an anacrusis between various repetitions of this element. This element opens a song which mentions “the terror of knowing what this world is about, watching some good friends screaming ‘Let me out!’” For 10 points, produce this bassline that opens both “Ice Ice Baby” and “Under Pressure.”PROMPT ON: the bassline from “Under Pressure” [or the bassline from “Ice Ice Baby”]In an interview with Paul Zollo, the writer of this element said “every time I sing that part, I’m a little embarrassed,” calling it “a failure of songwriting.” According to Hal Blaine, engineer Roy Halee set up mikes in an elevator shaft while recording the drums that accompany this element. According to a debunked theory, the nonsense words in this element are actually an attack on Bob Dylan, who nonetheless covered the song containing this element on his album Self Portrait. This element precedes the lyrics “Asking only workman’s wages, I come looking for a job, but I get no offers, just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue.” This element ends the song after a stanza about the title character carrying “the reminders of ev’ry glove that laid him down.” For 10 points, produce the chorus from Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer.”ANSWER: lie-la-lie, lie-la-lie-lie-lie-la-lie…A parody of this element from a Key of Awesome video includes the line “Those are movies that are on my Netflix queue.” In a Jonny Sun tweet, the performer of this element is told “just don’t think about” it before the song “Wolves” starts playing. This element opens a verse which complains “I still hear fiends scream in my dreams” and “Love, I don’t get enough of it.” The verse beginning with this element was nearly cut from the song, as revealed on Nicki Minaj’s Instagram. This element is followed by the question “What do these things all have in common?” For 10 points, produce the list of monsters that opens Jay-Z’s verse on Kanye’s “Monster.”ANSWER: Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Loch Ness, goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscienceAn early version of this element opens the song “Lesson One.” Kygo’s 2015 remix inexplicably replaces this element with a reggae-esque melody. This element was originally included in “The Juicy Fruit Song” by Bridges, whose member Mags Furuholmen wrote this element when he was only 15. This element accompanies the appearance of the intertitle “Spring” in La La Land, since the song containing it is played by the cover band Sebastian is in at the pool party. Pitbull and Christina Aguilera’s song “Feel This Moment” is built around a sample of this element. A song beginning with this element became a hit largely thanks to a music video directed by Steve Barron, in which a woman in a coffee shop is sucked into a comic book. For 10 points, produce this keyboard riff from A-ha’s “Take On Me.”PROMPT ON: the keyboard riff from “Take On Me” ................
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